Re: Internationalization

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From: John Halleck (John.Halleck_at_utah.edu)
Date: Tue May 28 2002 - 19:48:02 CEST


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From: John Halleck <John.Halleck_at_utah.edu>
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Subject: Re: Internationalization
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On Fri, 26 Apr 2002, Alexander Nickolsky wrote:

(I've been out of the country the last five weeks,
so I'm late in responding.)

> Date: Fri, 26 Apr 2002 11:38:44 +0400
> From: Alexander Nickolsky <nickol_at_argussoft.ru>
> Reply-To: cavexml_at_cartography.ch
> To: cavexml_at_cartography.ch
> Subject: Internationalization
>
> There is one more task (or sub-task) to do :
> in order to create a universal format it is necessary to decide
> about language differences.
>
> I think there should be at least two entries, one for language used
> for comments and station names, and one for the character set.

  Cave XML is XML, and therefore by standard uses UNICODE for the
  character set. A tag for character set doesn't seem meaning
  to me for that reason.
.
> The easiest way is to copy 'meta' tags from HTML
>
> I still have no idea what to do with a task of for example, combining
> two surveys in different languages, but is this really a problem now ?


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